You can't wake someone who is pretending to sleep, and you can't save someone who's willing to sacrifice themselves.
Li Mu could halt the marriage alliance, but he couldn't prevent someone from voluntarily submitting a request for it.
"Is she really willing?" asked Tang Xiaobai.
"If not willing, who could force her? No matter how unloved, she is still the emperor's own daughter."
The one who requested the marriage alliance was the emperor's third daughter, Princess Hengyang, Li Ling.
Princess Hengyang was seventeen this year, born of Beauty Wang.
Beauty Wang was a distant relative of Empress Dowager Wang and former Prime Minister Wang Maozhao, though from a very distant branch.
Even when Wang Maozhao was in power, she didn't gain much from it, not to mention now that the Wang family's grandeur has collapsed.
